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Papo de Budega is an informative site about the entertainment universe which main subjects are animation (specially animes), comics (specially mangas) and TV shows. Our main reports are in Portuguese and English.To have fun, a funny stories section (just in Portuguese) and also general commentaries by the editor, Sandra Monte (in English, Spanish and/or Portuguese).

quinta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2006

VIZ MEDIA SIGNS NEW INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS TO EXPAND THE DEATH NOTE MANGA INTO EUROPE

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies has inked deals with Ediciones Glenat España in Spain, Panini in Italy, Tokyopop in Germany and Dargaud Lombard in France to publish the DEATH NOTE デスノート manga from Shueisha. It is scheduled for fall 2006 release.

DEATH NOTE is about Light Yagami an ace student with great prospects who is bored out of his mind. Then he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light vows to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer and he's hot on the heels of Light Yagami.

"We are excited to bring the DEATH NOTE series to Europe," said Daniel Marks, Senior Vice President, International, VIZ Media. "This series is wildly popular in Japan and the U.S. and we look forward to its success throughout Europe."

This ongoing manga series has sold over 8.2MM copies in Japan, and it is already translated and released in five other countries. The series creator, Takeshi Obata, won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 and the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1999 for his work on HIKARU NO GO ヒカルの碁, also available from VIZ Media.